Album

Yell (2008)

Album Notes

Yell album is the best choice for
people who seek rich melodic instrumentations in riffs and solos of
rock music accompanied by vocals as colors to the music itself.

Yell’s songs present a variety of
genres, from Heavy Metal to Hard Rock, Progressive Rock and even
Soft Rock, so one could have a challenging listening time. Meanwhile
it doesn’t become repetitious due to its progressive style spirit.
Eventually the eastern blend evokes deep senses of various emotions
which transcend the mind to fly further so that one can feel
his/her soul lighter and fresher after each round of listening!

The lyrics are in Farsi. Most of the lyrics are selected
from the most famous classical Persian poems versified by the most
outstanding Persian poets such as Saadi, Ferdowsi and
Masoud-Sa’ad-Salman; but the music is composed so that the lyrical
theme preserves harmony among songs so that the listener do not feel
them apart. And the special matter is that in composition of these
songs there hasn’t been any intention to reflect anything stylistic
(i.e. rock or metal), but they actually are composed in a manner so
that they can reflect the soul inherent in the poems themselves; so
Arashk claims that even the style is autonomous. As a result one may
not feel any paradox between singing Persian and rock or metal style
and so preserving the important point that the lyrics and the music
should always agree on a same spirit.

Despite the ancient style of the
poems (mostly versified about 700 years ago), maybe their concepts
are even more present and influential in today’s life than ever! The
lyrics hire variety of concepts, from the emotions of an imprisoned
man or the groaning of lovers, to the words of a rebel leader or a
man fighting against the enemy.

Lyrics

English
Translation

Farsi Lyrics

1. Falcons of the Sky (Poet: Pouyan Khajavi)
Brave men, in the heights of clouds / Pilot in the sky like
an arrow
With an heart of steel, fighting shame / Free like a hawk,
die or fight
The goal is flight; falcons of the sky (x4)
Against death, no fear or doubt / They adore no end rival
Sharp like a sword, dreadful like thunderbolt / Put an
everlasting theme unto history
The goal is flight; falcons of the sky (x4)[Translated from Farsi]

I am fallen person in a
thousand sorrows / In each breath my life's looking in
end
with no sin I am prisoner / with no reason fallen in
trouble
I am a bird trapped in disaster / I have recived no gain
stars have sworn to hurt me / the sky has come to fight
with me
I am in Prison, I am in Prison, When my soul will come
to an end? (2x)

I am trapped and ill-omened / I am suffering and the
star is my slayer
I had many selected friends / what has become no one's
remain
every night the sky's made sad / with my painful sadness
cryings
My pending story is long enough / Cause there is no
openning by my words
I am in Prison, I am in Prison, When my soul will come
to an end? (2x)

It is if the sun is not
going to rise tonight / What dreams passed and a sleep
passed not
Why you are late O morning, my soul is coming to an end
/ You did wrong and no one did the good to call upon you
The mourning scents (x4)
The rooster's voice stopped from singning / All
nightingles died and just remained the crow
My head desires to dedicate to his greatness / It is
better to be died in water to be in hope of water
The mourning scents (x4)

4. Hur Mazda (Poet: Pouyan Khajavi)
The day of war, the day of destruction / Fight with devils
The day of fear, the day of war and ruin / Fight in the name
of Hur Mazda
Hur Mazda (x6)
For freedom / Fight with enemies
Draw your sword / And hit in the name of Hur Mazda
Hur Mazda (x6)[Translated from Farsi]

(Poet:
Ferdowsi, The story of Kaveh the Blacksmith and Zahhak.
More about the story
here.)

At the time, at the king's
presence / the yell of the revenger started to raise
They called the oppressed (Kaveh) to his (king's)
presence / And let him to sit beside the famed.
The chief (king) told him with anger / Tell me who has
done injustice to you
He shouted and mourned from king's speech / saying O
king! I AM Kaveh the prosecutor
If you are the king and are the beast / you should judge
this story
If you are the king and reign seven countries / why all
the sorrow and pain are for us?
You should inquire my case / in a way astonishing the
world
That my children should feed your (shoulder's) snakes

8. Groanings (Poet: Saadi)
The wind hardly tells of an orchard / Morning sprang and the
day came. Wake up and extinguish the lights.
If you make all people devoted and intoxicated like me /
Follow the competent ones and feed wine to ascetics.
Bitter groaning of silent ones (x4)
Get my clothes and give me wine. Bring liquor and take
sorrow / The intellect is unaware of the pleasure n' delight
of intoxicated ones.
Why advising me so much on not following good ones? / Why
shouldn't I as I'm selfless? As the eagerness takes me by
dragging.
Bitter groaning of silent ones (x4)[Translated from Farsi]

Stories

Zahhak's Shoulder
Snakes Eating Human Brain

Do you know the story
of Kaveh Ahangar and Zahhak? Zahhak was a mythical
emperor of Persia, who had two black serpents on the shoulders.
Ahriman (Satan in Persian mythology) appeared to him as a physician
and told that his only remedy is "let the snakes remain on his
shoulders, and sate their hunger by supplying them with human brains
for food every day otherwise the snakes will feed on his own"Listen to the story in Arashk Band's
song, Yell from album Yell (2008). The lyrics are in Persian.http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_8544503